One of my favorite things about being a professor is learning. I love to teach because I love to learn. And I love to do that with students who do as well.

Scott Cunningham

If chatgpt is of interest download his syllabus here. H/T Marginal Revolution.

I think the syllabus is an underrated learning tool. If there’s a subject you’d like to learn creating your own syllabus would be an excellent starting point. Maybe a micro-syllabus?

There’s 6 assignments for the podcast class. The first I call “Memento Morit and the 20-year plan”. Memento Mori is latin for “remember you’re going to die. And so from that, I ask students to think about what goal they have for what they are doing in 2043, and why. Try to understand precisely what it is about that goal that matters, what feeling does it produce, and how would they feel if that feeling wasn’t produced, and then work backwards to 6 months from now. Then select an interviewee and write a short biography about them.

Cunningham, Scott. https://causalinf.substack.com/p/my-new-syllabus-for-my-new-class

I love how he’s incorporating a podcast assignment into his course. This is the first I’ve heard of it.

The Memento Mori exercise is one for (nearly) any age. What is your goal for what you’ll be doing in 2043?

Memento Mori.